Shwe Muay Wan

A beautiful gilded bell-shaped stupa in Myawadi, one of the few beautiful things in town.

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Rebels, Smugglers, Gangsters and... Backpackers?

December 16th 2006
Which of these things does not belong? Mae Sot is a strange place. It seems like an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, forgotten town, with a couple of dozen streets woven together haphazardly just a few km east of the Burma border. There are a couple of Buddhist temples, a main street lined with mundane shops, and a busy market heaped with vegetables, fruit, fly-buzzed meat, and fishy fish. One i ... read more

Asia » Thailand » North-West Thailand » Tak

A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more

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